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Lives of Gender Incongruent Community: An Indian Subset Chants “All is Well”

CONTEXT: Gender incongruent individuals are exposed to unique stressors as a result of their minority social position. Poor social support has a further adverse impact on the lives and wellbeing of gender incongruent individuals. There is a paucity of scientific data from India on the socioeconomic...

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Autores principales: Majumder, Anirban, Chatterjee, Sudip, Chaudhuri, Soumyabrata Roy, Chakraborty, Soma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7906098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33643869
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijem.IJEM_501_20
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author Majumder, Anirban
Chatterjee, Sudip
Chaudhuri, Soumyabrata Roy
Chakraborty, Soma
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description CONTEXT: Gender incongruent individuals are exposed to unique stressors as a result of their minority social position. Poor social support has a further adverse impact on the lives and wellbeing of gender incongruent individuals. There is a paucity of scientific data from India on the socioeconomic status (SES) of gender incongruent community. AIMS: Aim of the study is to understand and estimate the social support, wellbeing, and SES of gender incongruent individuals in Eastern India. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Data of 120 gender incongruent patients from the endocrinology outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital in eastern India were collected. We looked at demographic characteristics, social support, underlying psychiatric comorbidities, and SES. SES was calculated by the Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic status (KSS) scale based on occupation, education, and income. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: Microsoft Word and Excel were used to generate tables. RESULTS: Most of the gender incongruent individuals were transfeminine. Almost half of them had no history of addiction. Most of them had good support from family and friends and very few (only 3%) had mental health problems. Calculation by KSS scale showed most of the study population lay in the upper middle or lower middle socioeconomic class. CONCLUSIONS: Strong support from friends and family appears a key factor for protection against psychiatric comorbidities and an all-round impact on the lives and wellbeing of the study population.
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spelling pubmed-79060982021-02-26 Lives of Gender Incongruent Community: An Indian Subset Chants “All is Well” Majumder, Anirban Chatterjee, Sudip Chaudhuri, Soumyabrata Roy Chakraborty, Soma Indian J Endocrinol Metab Original Article CONTEXT: Gender incongruent individuals are exposed to unique stressors as a result of their minority social position. Poor social support has a further adverse impact on the lives and wellbeing of gender incongruent individuals. There is a paucity of scientific data from India on the socioeconomic status (SES) of gender incongruent community. AIMS: Aim of the study is to understand and estimate the social support, wellbeing, and SES of gender incongruent individuals in Eastern India. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Data of 120 gender incongruent patients from the endocrinology outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital in eastern India were collected. We looked at demographic characteristics, social support, underlying psychiatric comorbidities, and SES. SES was calculated by the Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic status (KSS) scale based on occupation, education, and income. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: Microsoft Word and Excel were used to generate tables. RESULTS: Most of the gender incongruent individuals were transfeminine. Almost half of them had no history of addiction. Most of them had good support from family and friends and very few (only 3%) had mental health problems. Calculation by KSS scale showed most of the study population lay in the upper middle or lower middle socioeconomic class. CONCLUSIONS: Strong support from friends and family appears a key factor for protection against psychiatric comorbidities and an all-round impact on the lives and wellbeing of the study population. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2021-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7906098/ /pubmed/33643869 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijem.IJEM_501_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Majumder, Anirban
Chatterjee, Sudip
Chaudhuri, Soumyabrata Roy
Chakraborty, Soma
Lives of Gender Incongruent Community: An Indian Subset Chants “All is Well”
title Lives of Gender Incongruent Community: An Indian Subset Chants “All is Well”
title_full Lives of Gender Incongruent Community: An Indian Subset Chants “All is Well”
title_fullStr Lives of Gender Incongruent Community: An Indian Subset Chants “All is Well”
title_full_unstemmed Lives of Gender Incongruent Community: An Indian Subset Chants “All is Well”
title_short Lives of Gender Incongruent Community: An Indian Subset Chants “All is Well”
title_sort lives of gender incongruent community: an indian subset chants “all is well”
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7906098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33643869
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijem.IJEM_501_20
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